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Renaissance Artists

Renaissance Artists. The Renaissance can be divided into three smaller epochs: The Early Renaissance 1400-1490 The High Renaissance 1490-1530 The Renaissance of the North or Late Renaissance 1520-1550. The Renaissance. Renaissance art. Classical themes replace purely Christian ones

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Renaissance Artists

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  1. Renaissance Artists

  2. The Renaissance can be divided into three smaller epochs: The Early Renaissance 1400-1490 The High Renaissance 1490-1530 The Renaissance of the North or Late Renaissance 1520-1550 The Renaissance

  3. Renaissance art • Classical themes replace purely Christian ones • Space is present • Proportion in the buildings and people • Greco-Roman style • Pyramid • S-shaped curve or contrapposto • Chiaroscuro or light and shadow • Nudes were back…just like the Greeks

  4. Donatello’s David ca. 1430

  5. Della Robbia

  6. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

  7. Botticelli’s probable model for Venus

  8. Botticelli’s Birth of Mars

  9. Botticelli’s Primavera

  10. The Renaissance in the Netherlands The Renaissance in the Netherlands is also called the Flemish Renaissance, and Jan Van Eyck was the leader of the movement. Look for these characteristics: • Perfected oil painting • Modeling with light and shade • Great detail • Use of windows, doors, and mirrors • Use of symbols

  11. Van Eyck’sArnolfini and His Bride

  12. detail

  13. N.B. Leonardo and most of the Italian Renaissance painters use plein-air as the backdrop to their paintings. The Flemish painters didn’t, but note the open windows or doors. Leonardo Mona Lisa1503-5

  14. Van Eyck’sArnolfini and His Bride

  15. Gentile’sAdoration of the Magi

  16. Gentile (International style or Late Gothic) Filled up all available space Bright colors and halos Golden frame Proportion not important Masaccio and the rest of the Italians Space is present Proportion in the buildings and people—picture plane and linear perspective Greco-Roman style Pyramid S-shaped curve Desire to record accurate reflection of the subject Renaissance Painters

  17. Masaccio’s Holy Trinity ca. 1426

  18. Masaccio’s frescos in the Branacci Chapel

  19. Masaccio’s Tribute Money

  20. Masaccio’s Expulsion of Adam and Eve

  21. Fra Angelico’s Annunciation

  22. Ghirlandaio’s Adoration

  23. Ghirlandaio’sA Man with His Grandchild

  24. The Great Renaissance Competition • Ghiberti and Brunelleschi’s competition in 1401 was the Super Bowl of Art. They worked on the baptistery doors of the cathedral of Florence. • East doors contained 10 panels—Michelangelo called them the Gates of Paradise

  25. Ghiberti’s Creation of Adam

  26. Ghiberti’sCain Killing Abel

  27. Ghiberti’sSacrifice of Isaac

  28. Brunelleschi’sSacrifice of Isaac

  29. Ghiberti’s East DoorsGates of Paradise

  30. Brunelleschi’s Dome

  31. A Moment of Renaissance Zen • Brunelleschi’s strength lay in his understanding of the past. It hurt him with the doors, but it worked for him with the dome. He mixed the Gothic and the classical Roman vaulting. • My grandmother always said when teaching me to play bridge, “Allen, you always lead from your longest and strongest suit.”

  32. Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was the genius of the Renaissance with a broadest knowledge base of anyone. He invented things like parachutes before planes. He dreamed dreams that never were and said why not. N.B. Sfumato (depth due to ethereal background), pyramid, S-shaped curve, and chiaroscuro “That painting is the most to be praised which agrees most exactly with the thing imitated.”

  33. Leonardo Mona Lisa1503-5

  34. Leonardo’s Self-Portrait1512

  35. Leonardo Last Supper 1498

  36. Lady with an Ermine

  37. Leda and the Swan1505-10

  38. The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and John the Baptist

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